The Love Triangle – “Boomerang Girl” b/w “Quick Joey Small” – (Dire Records)

The Love Triangle started putting out singles and tape(s?) almost immediately after The Shitty Limits bit the dust. One of my yearly highlights happened a few years ago when Shitty Limits played a matinee at a record store followed by an unbelievable show in the evening with Logic Problem (in what would end up being the last Logic Problem show sans scattered reunions). The Shitty Limits wrote catchy punk songs that were punker than Buzzcocks but made you sing along the same way “Autonomy” does. There was also a definite Detroit vibe to the Limits that is hard to do without sounding like a bad Nuggets cut, but they pulled it off.
The first cut on this single by The Love Triangle has what I can only describe as one of the greatest dumb-punk hooks of all time. “Booma booma booma booma RANG RANG RANG RANG!” will be slamming it’s way inside your skull for weeks after you hear this song. From the very first seconds of this song you realize that The Shitty Limits song writing team is still there and you sing along all night. There are parts of this song that feel a little more Reatard than Motown, which is fine with me.
The flip side is a mid-paced cover of “Quick Joey Small” (a song I thought was just called “Run Joey Run”). It’s a fine song, and I’m glad that someone made it slightly punker, but I’d have preferred a original for the backside of this wonderful single.


bonus trivia: what other punk band covered this song (bonus because I can't remember and don't feel like looking it up).